The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown